[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3265867 29-Jul-2024 15:19

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Eva888:

Finally after 20 years loyalty which they just wrote and said doesn’t apply anymore with their new policies am giving State Insurance the boot. Aqua insurance $1200 for an 8k car. Checked with another company named Protecta at $10k and it was $860

I’ve called in a broker to review all my insurances today.

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You have the most stolen to the point that it's a meme car available and you're shocked they wont give you a discount?

Yes I knew that, but mine is in a garage. Also noteworthy is that the new premium price was based on them knocking its value down from $10k to 8k and last years insurance on a $10k car was $720. My Lexus at 3 times the price costs $840 to insure.

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#3265869 29-Jul-2024 15:25

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Depends on the Aqua (or Prius-C). If it's keyless start, they are significantly less stolen. The key operation ones, yep, they are the most stolen.

They still get broken into and when the kids find they cant start it they smash things, slash the seats and other things still.

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#3265870 29-Jul-2024 15:26

Eva888:

Yes I knew that, but mine is in a garage. Also noteworthy is that the new premium price was based on them knocking its value down from $10k to 8k and last years insurance on a $10k car was $720. My Lexus at 3 times the price costs $840 to insure.

You still park it at other places which means it is at risk.

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#3265872 29-Jul-2024 15:35

richms:

Eva888:

Yes I knew that, but mine is in a garage. Also noteworthy is that the new premium price was based on them knocking its value down from $10k to 8k and last years insurance on a $10k car was $720. My Lexus at 3 times the price costs $840 to insure.

You still park it at other places which means it is at risk.

Isn't that why we have insurance, because there is risk. Definitely won’t be buying one of those again and it’s such a great wee car for around town.

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#3265877 29-Jul-2024 16:03

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Definitely won’t be buying one of those again and it’s such a great wee car for around town.

This is something I find particularly annoying - paying for others' misdeeds.
And having something that is otherwise very practical and useful made impractical through the above.

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#3266185 30-Jul-2024 08:41

Yet another support ticket logged with all the details (URL, time, etc.) cropped out of the image. But the thing that really annoys me is that despite this happening over and over and over and over and over and over again, IT still refuses to take the Snipping Tool away from people.

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#3266189 30-Jul-2024 08:53

Behodar:

Yet another support ticket logged with all the details (URL, time, etc.) cropped out of the image. But the thing that really annoys me is that despite this happening over and over and over and over and over and over again, IT still refuses to take the Snipping Tool away from people.

What...no AI to OCR the image and automatically fill in the info where required ?

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#3266191 30-Jul-2024 08:57

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What...no AI to OCR the image and automatically fill in the info where required ?

Well, I suppose it would expedite the process of telling lies on the support ticket.

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#3266193 30-Jul-2024 09:00

Behodar:

Yet another support ticket logged with all the details (URL, time, etc.) cropped out of the image. But the thing that really annoys me is that despite this happening over and over and over and over and over and over again, IT still refuses to take the Snipping Tool away from people.

If you didn't provide them with the Snipping Tool, you would get tickets without screenshots at all.

But I do sympathise - I get a lot of tickets which are variations of "my report is not working" without any context as to which report, let alone which system...

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#3266205 30-Jul-2024 09:50

cddt:

If you didn't provide them with the Snipping Tool, you would get tickets without screenshots at all.

But I do sympathise - I get a lot of tickets which are variations of "my report is not working" without any context as to which report, let alone which system...

Try that with a spectrophotometer ...it shows error 12 (and error 63 IIRC, which I fixed, it lost the regulated DC from the stepper motor drive IC that is used to set the wavelength)

No user manual that says what 12 is, the only errors they show are from 30-70.

No service manual

Built by Phillips in the 1980s , so last service agent was probably last century ... so no hope of manuals....

And they want it back, working, ASAP.

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#3266327 30-Jul-2024 14:08

Americans who seem oblivious that the ENTIRE WORLD apart from them use Si units.

What the heck is 120 Fahrenheit?

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3266328 30-Jul-2024 14:11

elpenguino:

Americans who seem oblivious that the ENTIRE WORLD apart from them use Si units.

What the heck is 120 Fahrenheit?

Fahrenheit 451 is a book and I believe the temperature where paper will spontaneously combust.

Does that help ?

<edit, fixed book name>

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#3266333 30-Jul-2024 14:18

sir1963:

elpenguino:

Americans who seem oblivious that the ENTIRE WORLD apart from them use Si units.

What the heck is 120 Fahrenheit?

Fahrenheit 451 is a book and I believe the temperature where paper will spontaneously combust.

Does that help ?

<edit, fixed book name>

It's about as helpful as the american article I tried to read.

Something something screen door , submarine, chocolate teapot .....

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3266504 31-Jul-2024 08:31

This is why CEO's get the big bucks - ideas like this -

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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#3266507 31-Jul-2024 08:38

And then in five years they can say "due to lacklustre sales we've made the difficult decision to stop supporting the mouse", which is code for "push out an update that actually stops it from working".

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